Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur C. Clarke

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Anton Chekhov

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

Denis Diderot

How easy it is to tell tales!

Abraham Verghese

Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

Doris Lessing

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

Michael Connelly

What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles.

Alfred Hitchcock

In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.

Raymond Carver

Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.

Ray Bradbury

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

Ray Bradbury

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

Scott Adsit

In an infinite multiverse, there is no such thing as fiction.

Sherman Alexie

If it's fiction, then it better be true.

Siri Hustvedt

I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.

Michael Sheen

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

Neil Gaiman

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

Theodore Sturgeon

The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

Theodore Sturgeon

Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

Theodore Sturgeon

Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.

Theodore Sturgeon

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.

Michael Ondaatje

Githa Hariharan's fiction is wonderful-full of subtleties and humor and tenderness.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

Martin McDonagh

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

Philip Roth

The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.

Penelope Lively

I rather like getting away from fiction.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

I do love science-fiction and horror movies.

Mark Twain

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

Michael Chabon

I have a collection of mid-century, small-press science fiction and fantasy hardcovers that is my most focused and dedicated collection. Everything else I tend more to acquire or amass than collect. I have vinyl records I listen to all the time when I work. But I don't collect records. I just buy records where the price seems right and it's music I actually listen to.

Michio Kaku

You cannot create new science unless you realise where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.

Michio Kaku

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories.

Michael Crichton

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

Elizabeth McCracken

Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it.

Sarah Dessen

I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to make a story better, it's hard not to do it all the time.

Eudora Welty

Human life is fiction's only theme.